AWO 700

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AWO
Manufacturer AWO
Production period 1955 to 1958
class Motorcycle team
Motor data
Two-cylinder four-stroke engine
Displacement  (cm³) 684
Power  (kW / PS ) 20.2 / 27.5 at 5500 min -1
transmission 4 gears and reverse gear as well as countershaft
drive Cardan drive
Brakes Drum brakes
Empty weight  (kg) 465 (total weight = 670)
Previous model BMW R 75 team

The AWO 700 motorcycle combination was developed by the manufacturer AWO in Suhl, Thuringia, after the Second World War on the basis of the BMW R75 Wehrmacht combination built in Eisenach until the end of 1944 . The AWO 700 was originally developed at EMW (Eisenacher Motoren Werke) with the type drawing R 70 . Only a pre-series was produced in Suhl, but it did not go into production after being tested by the barracked people's police .

history

EMW, the successor to the BMW plant in Eisenach, received the order in 1952 to design a new, improved version based on the BMW R 75 manufactured there until 1944. The three-year development should incorporate the experience gained from building the BMW R 75 combination. By government decision, production was not relocated to Eisenach at EMW, but to Suhl, as motorcycle production continued there. Only ten motorcycles and 14 engines were manufactured by Awtowelo (AWO) in the Simson factory in Suhl until 1958.

technology

The two-cylinder boxer engine with 166 ° bank angle and almost 700 cm³ displacement is a new design taken over by EMW with the cylinder heads of the EMW R 35 . The cylinders were each raised by 7 ° in order to gain more ground clearance. The lack of stability of the engine stopped further military development. While the front wheel was guided with a telescopic fork , the rear wheel had straight-line suspension .

Web links

literature

  • Thomas Reinwald: The heavy armed forces teams. Zündapp KS 750 and BMW R 75. UNITEC-Medienvertrieb, 2011, DNB 100907380X .
  • Frank Rönicke: German military motorcycles. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-613-03215-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Rönicke: German military motorcycles. 2010, p. 102.
  2. ↑ Thomas Reinwald: The heavy armed forces teams. 2011, p. 35.
  3. ^ Frank Rönicke: German military motorcycles. 2010, p. 102.